category error

noun

category error

noun
1

Synonym of category mistake.

  • So, is lambasting the Manifesto for inaccuracy a category error, akin, say, to fact-checking a slogan?2022, China Miéville, chapter 1, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:

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